Clothes-washer.



G. B. WILSON.

CLOTHES WASHER.

. APPLICATION FILED MAE. 2, 1908. 904,242. Patented Nov. 17. 1908.

Garage B. Wilson.

GEORGE B. WILSON,

OF COLUMBUS, OHIO.

CLOTHES-WASHER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Nov. 17, 1908.

Application filed March 2, 1908. Serial No. 418,672.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE B. WILSON, a citizen of the United States, residing at Columbus, in the county of Franklin and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Clothes-WVashers, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to the improvement of clothes Washers, and the objects of my inveution are to provide an improved construction of clothes washer by means of which the operation of washing clothes in a tub may be rapidly and effectively accom plished; to provide improved means for forcing air into the water and supplying air to the body of the washing device. These objects I accomplish in the manner illustrated in the accompanying drawing, in which:

Figure l is a central vertical section of the washer head, liig. 2 is a sectional view on line a2w of Fig. 1, Fig. 3 is a sectional view on line yy of Fig. 1.

Similar numerals refer to similar parts throughout the several views.

In carrying out my invention, I employ a washing head or body which comprises a conical casing 1 having an open underside.

as shown. The upper and smaller end of the casing is extended upward in the form of a vertical socket piece 1. The lower and larger end portion of the casing 1 is slightly enlarged circumferentially as indicated at 2, this enlarged portion having a Vertical side Wall which terminates in an inturned edge roll 3. The vertical wall of the enlargement 2 is perforated as indicated at 1, these perforations being arranged above the edge roll 3. The upper portion of the easing 1 below the tubular extension 1 thereof, is also provided with a suitable number of perforations et WVithin the casing 1 at a point preferably below the center of the height thereof, I provide a fixed horizontal partition plate 5 and from the underside of the central portion of said plate depends an internal conical body 6 which has its lower portion formed with a vertical extension 6 and which as prescribed for the terminal portion 2 of the casing 1, has formed therewith an inturned edge roll which is shown at 7 and is also provided with perforations which are indicated at 8. Formed through the plate 5 are a plurality of openings 9, the central opening thereof communicating with the upper end of the interior conical casing 6.

10 represents a valve body which is located above the partition 5 and which is formed with a central underside valve projection 10 and with laterally extending arms 10", each of which carries a downwardly extending valve projection 10 corresponding with the projection 10. These valve projections l0 and 10 are adapted, as shown, to enter the openings 9 of the plate 5, the portions of the valve body 10 which are gaskets 11 which are arranged to fit about the upper portion of the valve projections. It will be observed that each of the valve projections has its lower portion formed with a vertical recess or bifurcation which is shown clearly in Fig. 3 of the drawing at it).

\Vith the central portion and upper side of the valve body 10 is detachably connected the lower end of an upwardly extending vertical handle member 12, this handle member extending, as shown, through the tubular upper extension 1 of the casing 1 with which it is connected through the medium of a transverse bolt 13. The bolt 13, however, passes through a slotted opening 12 in the handle, said slot being of such height as to permit of a desirable upward and downward movement of the handle independent of the washing head with which it is connected.

In the operation of this class of washing devices, the clothes are subjected to contact with the washing head by alternately forcing the latter downward into the tub and raising the same. This operation when carried out in connection with the washing device herein described, will result when the handle 12 is raised, in a slight independent upward movement of said handle, which is not imparted to the body of the device owing to the formation of the slot 12 in said handle. but which results in raising the valve body 10 until the upper portions of the bifurcated parts of the valve projections 10 and 10 are above the openings 9 in the plate 5, thus permitting air which enters the exterior casing through the openings or perforations 1* to escape into the lower portion of the washer head through said openings 9. hen the device is again driven downward. it is obvious that the contact of the lower edges of the casings 1 and (3 with the contents of above said openings bearing upon rubberthe tub, will result in a sufiicient independent downward movement of the handle to cause the unbifurcated portions of the valve projections 10 and 10 to enter and close the openings 9, thus forcing the air which has passed into the interior casing 6 and into the lower portion of the casing 1, to pass outward through the perforations 4L and S into the water.

It is well known that by forcing air currents into a body of water containing clothes to be cleansed, currents in the water are pro duced which result in a desirable agitation of the water and a consequent cleansing action on the clothes contained therein. By the means which I have described, it will be seen that the air is directed laterally into the water not only from about the perforated casing extension 2, but about the vertical extension 6" of the interior casing 6.

It is common in constructions of this character to form the beaded or rolled edges of the casings such as are shown at 3 and 7, on the outer sides of the casings, but it will be observed that in the construction shown, these rolled edges are upon the inner sides of the casings where they operate to form shoulders which aid in deflecting the air through the openings and 8. This is by reason of the fact that the shoulders hold the clothes away from the wall of the casings 1 and (3 to a certain extent, thereby permitting a better flow of air through the openings 4 and 8 than would be the case if the clothes were permitted to come into contact with the walls of the casings.

From the construction and operation described, it will be understood that air is supplied to the lower portions of the washing head. beneath the plate 5, at each upward movement of the handle and at each downward movement thereof, the air supply openings 9 are closed, thus insuring the forcing of air into the water at each down ward movement of the head and subjecting the clothes not only to the frictional contact oi the washing head parts, but to the cleansing action of the currents produced in the water by the air.

Vhat I claim, is:

1. In a clothes washer, the combination with a casing and a partition in said casing having openings therethrough, of a handle having a limited sliding connection with the upper portion of said casing, a valve body within the casing above the partition, said valve body being connected with said handle and adapted by being raised and lowered to open and close said partition openings.

2. In a clothes washer, the combination with an external casing having perforations in. its lower end portion, a horizontal partition therein having openings, and a conical interior casing depending from said partition and having perforations in the lower portion thereof, of a valve body above the partition having valve projections adapted to enter the openings in said partition, and a handle connected with said valve body and with said external casing, said handle having a limited upward and downward movement independent of the external casing.

In testimony whereof I aflix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

' GEORGE B. IVILSON.

Witnesses C. C. SHEPHERD, L. CARL S'roUeH'roN. 

